Bit of a nightmare recently X-H1

[Peter fisher]

Hi, I had a couple of things go wrong. Normally I buy cheap cards, but as I was having buffering issues at my kid's sport's day, I decided to buy a SanDisc Extreme Pro micro Sd card. On holiday it crashed with an initialization error. I had to use the recovery software which only recovered the jpeg files. Thinking it was bad luck I reformatted it again and the same thing happened. This time I had already copied all the important photos to my laptop first. Tried a recovery, this time and only recovered a video file.

I moved to a cheap card for the rest of the holiay and I had another initialization error on it. I turend it off and on and popped the card and it worked fine, no loss of photos no problems.

I have never had this happen before. All the firmware is up to date on camera and lens. Anyone got any insight into what the problem might be?

I have bought two new cards 256gb Samsung Pro and a Lexar silver pro. Is there any way I can get both cards to write JPEG and Raw on both cards or does it have to be jpeg on one and raw on the other.

Many thanks

[Woolly66]

It's probably best not to use Mico sd cards. The adapter is an extra part that can fail/cause problems. I know they cost a bit more, but full size SD cards, in general, work better, are more reliable, and give better read/write speeds. Again, don't get cheap cards - the X-H1 has two uhs ii compatible card slots. Use good uhs ii cards (v60 is fine) and you wont regret it.

[pw-pix]

As a counterpoint, I've been using Samsung EVO series micro SD cards and adapters for about 5 years with no issues at all.